[TheForge] Sash weight

[Peter Hirst]

Damn!  Think of the technology Bessemer wasted melring and blowing air 
through the stuff !!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Kretchmar" <dan at irontreeworks.com>
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Sash weight


> :)
>
> The article said that wootz can be made by cooking/baking cast iron
> for long periods (at very high temps) to burn out some of the carbon.
>
> Danr
>
> On 3/6/09, Woolley <wjec1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> I recently read an article on making wootz from cast iron.
>> > Anybody on the list ever try that?
>> >
>> >
>> > Wootz?  I think I saw a "Wootz that toots when it doesn't give a hoot" 
>> > in a Dr.Seuss book but I might be wrong.  In that case it would be born 
>> > or, you know, hatched like a Quackathatch right?
>>
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